Did you know? Cher's last name was "Sarkissian." She changed it because no one could pronounce it.

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The iconic song has been given a diverse new set of versions thanks to pianist Min Kwon’s ambitious musical projectDespite what you may have heard, there is no definitive version of the song America the Beautiful.Katharine Lee Bates wrote its lyrics as a poem in 1893, inspired by an ecstatic road trip from the…

Democratic primary elections to test strength of party’s left flank as old guard faces string of challengesNew Yorkers were voting on Tuesday in a slate of Democratic primaries poised to reveal the strength of the party’s left flank and shape the battle for control of the US House of Representatives in…

AJ Dybantsa is widely expected to have his name called first on Tuesday. But which other young stars are worth keeping an eye on?AJ Dybantsa looked like a pro among college kids in his lone season at BYU, becoming just the fifth Division I player in the last 40 years to average more than 25 points per game while…

What the US president succeeded in obliterating was any rationale he offered for going to warBefore Donald Trump finally surrendered in his Iran war, he declared victory several dozen times, including on day eight– “We’ve already won!” – day 10 – “The war is very complete”– day 12, proclaiming he had…

Film-maker talks about her documentary on John Barnett, the Boeing whistleblower who killed himself in 2024It is widely recognized that for the Kennedys, tragedy has come often and from unexpected quarters. The filmmaker Rory Kennedy, born six months after the assassination of her father Robert Kennedy, has known her…

The symbolic power of a stagnant pond beneath Lincoln’s statue has proven irresistible for the president’s criticsNarcissus was cursed to fall in love with his own reflection in a pool of water. Donald Trump is finding that his effort to overhaul the Lincoln ⁠Memorial reflecting pool in Washington has turned…

Trump boasted of assassinating Héctor Guerrero Flores but details are scarce and experts doubt it will harm drug tradeAt 10am on 9 June, a huge explosion rattled Las Claritas, a ramshackle town on the edge of a vast goldmine carved out of the Venezuelan Amazon.“The blast was so powerful that my sister’s house…

‘Maybe they just didn’t believe in me,’ the pop star said of Universal, which was set to make a film about her life starring Julia GarnerMadonna says that the long-gestating movie about her life that she was personally overseeing was cancelled after she fell out with Hollywood studio Universal over the size of…